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1/7/2006

 

II. The specter of excruciating death by Depleted Uranium poisoning raised

its ugly head this past week again, as a major article was posted in Daily

News Updates for January 6, 2006, which furnished updated information which

should sober us all.

 

NOTE: Before reading this section, please read the articles we have posted

in our Depleted Uranium Section.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets A

Death Sentence Here and Abroad " , By Leuren Moret, Coastal Post Online,

January, 2006

 

" At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets

raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers,

all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and

fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their

recent tour in Iraq. 'Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used

as pawns in foreign policy'. (Henry Kissinger, quoted in " Kiss the Boys

Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam " )

 

" ... since 1991, the US has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium

weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the US government definition of

Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central

Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation. And what about our

soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this

week to the American Free Press that " Gulf-era veterans " now on medical

disability since 1991 number 518,739 ... This week the American Free Press

dropped a " dirty bomb " on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men

who served in one unit in the 2003 US military offensive in Iraq now have

malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have

developed malignancies in just 16 months. "

 

This extremely sad new information means that 40% of all soldiers who have

fought in Iraq since 2003 may be developing cancer malignancies caused by

Depleted Uranium dust spread so thickly and widely throughout the Iraqi and

Afghanistan war theaters. Gulf War Vets estimates that one million American

soldiers have been rotated through Iraq since our March 20, 2003, invasion.

Therefore, the number of soldiers who are currently developing cancerous

malignancies could conceivably be 40% of 1,000,000 men and women, or 400,000

soldiers!

 

What is the official death toll of the Iraqi War? I believe it is less than

2,200, with about 10,00 admitted non-fatal casualties, i.e., wounded in

action. Let us return to our current article:

 

" ... powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by

the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first

used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction

of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that

DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff. Scientists studying the

biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA.

Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear

Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the

new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as 'spectacular'

and a matter of concern. "

 

" This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological

systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from

nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and

targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU

causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define. "

 

Concerning this issue of D.U. producing a " myriad of diseases which are

difficult to define " , we need to go back to some of our original material,

which quotes a military doctor trained in modern desert warfare.

 

" The body of every soldier in Iraq is now being assaulted by the following

elements:

 

1. Searing heat between 120-150° - This tremendous heat will not relent

until mid-October

2. Local biting insects that deliver a toxic pathogen with which the

native Iraqis have to contend daily

3. A cocktail of vaccines that were administered prior to landing in Iraq.

As in Gulf War I, these vaccines are highly toxic

4. Exposure to Depleted Uranium in the air, in the water in some areas,

and in the dust everywhere. As Amy Worthington states in her article in The

Idaho Observer, " The US and British troops are the walking dead. "

5. Unknown and unpredictable mutations of physical maladies caused by the

above combination of toxic elements

" In the daily campaign in Iraq, soldiers are breathing in the toxic Depleted

Uranium, and many of them are being constantly bitten by the local insects.

These two elements join the toxic vaccine already in the body. Because of

the unrelenting, searing heat, nearly every soldier is dehydrated to some

degree, thus allowing this deadly combination of toxins to build up to

dangerously concentrated levels. Further, this doctor related how American

scientists keeping watch over the radioactive poisoning of the Pacific

islands at which France and the United States conducted nuclear tests

several decades ago, are constantly finding mutated organisms that have

never been identified before! Uranium poisoning in our soldiers is very

likely mutating with these other elements to create strange and deadly

organisms for which the soldiers have not been prepared to face.

 

" The way in which these five elements combine to make the solider sick, or

to kill him, will vary widely with each soldier. The age of the soldier

plays a part, as does the individual genetic code, as does the health of the

immune system. Thus, soldiers will be getting sick at various points along

the time spectrum. Further, the exact cause of death will vary so widely

that it will be difficult to prove any single cause. Some soldiers will die

of pneumonia, some of internal organ meltdown, some of apparent heart

attack, and some will die of maladies perhaps not yet seen in medical

science. " (Quoted from Cutting Edge Newsletter, August 16, 2003)

 

The Pentagon has been able to hide behind the fig leaf of death by multiple

maladies for years; perhaps now they can hide no longer.

 

" In simple words, DU 'trashes the body'. When asked if the main purpose for

using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more

specific: 'I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of

people'. " ( " Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets A

Death Sentence Here and Abroad " , By Leuren Moret, Coastal Post Online,

January, 2006)

 

Long before President Bush ordered American soldiers to invade Iraq on a

foundation of lies about WMD, he and his advisers and all members of the

Pentagon, knew that our Depleted Uranium munitions would kill virtually

every American soldier who served in the theater and virtually the entire

population of Iraqi civilians -- over a 20-year period. How long ago did our

national leadership know of the deadly nature of Depleted Uranium? The

answer may shock you.

 

" Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The

blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from

the Manhattan Project ... At that time, it was known that radioactive

materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the

battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all

protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating

the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly. They also

recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to

destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land

with the radioactive dust. " (Ibid.)

 

Our national leaders -- both civilian and military -- knew that Depleted

Uranium could be used to kill entire populations all the way back in 1943!

 

The first D.U. weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968. Therefore,

when President Reagan embarked upon his ambitious military rearmament plan

in 1982, few realized that the new weapons systems of the Army, Navy and Air

Force were largely Depleted Uranium systems! After the Vietnam War,

President Carter deliberately drew down our military so severely that his

successor, President Reagan, could rebuild a totally new death machine --

using D.U. weaponry.

 

President Bush, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell,

Vice President Cheney and all Pentagon top leaders are without excuse. They

knew they were dooming to death hundreds of thousands of American soldiers,

their wives, their poor babies and the entire Iraqi civilian population.

 

The Cover-Up Revealed

 

" The medical profession has been active in the cover-up ... A medical

doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with

other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat

soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only. Medical

professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were

threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their

medical problems. They were also threatened with jail. Reporters have also

been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown

nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter

Reed Hospital near Washington, DC ... How was the truth about DU hidden from

military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death,

Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director

of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War

veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those

continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing

critical information being transferred to new troops. The " next DU war " had

already been planned, and those planning it wanted 'no skunk at the garden

party'. "

 

The US Has A Dirty (DU) Little (CIA) Secret

 

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins

Piper, " The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's

Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against

Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire, " details the early

plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons

in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with

getting the DU 'show on the road' and the oil crisis in the Middle East ...

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could

have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and

genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East

and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's

oil deposits are located - he replied: 'It has all the handprints of Henry

Kissinger'. "

 

" In Zbignew Brzezinski's book 'The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and

Its Geostrategic Imperatives', the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes

four regions strategic to US foreign policy. The 'South' region corresponds

precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from US

bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU. A Japanese

professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the

atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The US has used more DU since

1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear

wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the

atmosphere from atmospheric testing! "

 

While Zbignew Brzezinski's book may have provided the original planning,

" The Pentagon's New Map " book provides the current plan being implemented

throughout the world. As we explain in NEWS1833, the Illuminati believes

there are only two types of nations in the world today.

 

1. Nations who are already functioning in the new Global System or who are

clearly and firmly going in that direction -- the " Functioning Core "

 

2. Nations who are not now functioning in the Global System and are not

likely to do so in the foreseeable future, unless they are kicked into it by

U.S. or European troops, or by the threat of invasion. These nations are

called the " Non-Functioning Gap " .

 

Countries like Iraq and Afghanistan are considered " Non-Functioning Gap "

countries and liable to either invasion or covert " Regime Change " so they

can be " boot-kicked " into fully joining the world body so that the point may

be reached whereby " no man can buy or sell save he that has the Mark " . As

you examine the map provided in NEWS1833, you will realize why American

foreign policy is attempting " Regime Changes " in these areas of the world.

 

Depleted Uranium is playing a hidden role in this drama, in that it will act

to kill those nations considered not likely to ever meld into the cashless

system and it will weaken the American military sufficiently to enable it to

be melded into the coming United Nations global military. Let us now

conclude this featured article:

 

" No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East,

Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after

Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, 'Military men are

just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy' . Unfortunately,

more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And

unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and

deposited in our environments, just as the 'smog of war' from the 1991 Gulf

War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii. In

June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that

global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know

that they aren't telling us?

 

" I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence. For all of us. We will

all die in silent ways. " (Ibid.)

 

III. The Iraqi insurgency exploded in the bloodiest fighting in a very long

time. Yet, President Bush and VP Cheney continued prattling on about the

" progress " their forces were making in rebuilding Iraq into a " democracy " .

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Day of record bloodshed in Iraq " , New Zealand Herald, January

6, 2005

 

" KERBALA, Iraq - Two suicide bombers killed at least 110 people and wounded

more than 200 in the Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Ramadi this morning (NZ

time), the second consecutive day of concerted insurgent attacks. Another

three bombs exploded in Baghdad, two of them detonated by suicide bombers,

and a roadside bomb targeted a US convoy near the southern Shi'ite holy city

of Najaf, destroying a Humvee and killing at least two civilians. Coming a

day after 58 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings, the latest

bloodshed appeared certain to ratchet up tension between Sunni and Shi'ite

Muslims after December's election. "

 

" In all, violence has killed more than 225 people and wounded more than 280

in the five days since the New Year started, a death toll comparable with

some of the nation's bloodiest weeks since the US-led invasion in March 2003

.... The Kerbala bomber detonated an explosive belt laced with ballbearings

and a grenade, killing 51 and wounding 138. Television pictures showed pools

of blood in the street, which was littered with debris. Passers-by loaded

the wounded into the backs of cars and vans, and one black-clad woman stood

crying while clutching her dead or wounded baby to her chest. "

 

" Soon afterwards, another bomber blew himself up near a group of police and

army recruits in the western city of Ramadi, in the worst single attack in

Iraq since July 2005. The attack, which killed more than 60 and wounded

around 70, was the latest in a long string of assaults on police and army

recruits, tasked with taking over from the US military in the fight against

the largely Sunni Arab insurgency. "

 

American soldiers were also dying in high numbers. DEBKAfile Intelligence

reported this morning that 11 American soldiers were killed on Thursday

alone.

 

Additionally, insurgents struck at Iraq's oil refining capacity, slowing

exports to a crawl.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Insurgent Ambush Shuts Oil Refinery " , chron.com, Jan. 5, 2006

 

" BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's largest oil refinery closed again Thursday, a day

after insurgents ambushed a convoy of tanker trucks carrying gas from the

facility ... pumping to the Beiji refinery also had been suspended ... Beiji

is located in a restive area 155 miles north of Baghdad. Police said

Wednesday's ambush destroyed four tankers and damaged 15, while three Iraqi

army vehicles were blown up. The refinery, which pumps 140,000 barrels a

day, closed Dec. 18 after insurgents threatened to kill drivers transporting

oil and blow up their trucks ... Thursday's shutdown only will worsen a fuel

crunch gripping Iraq. Though the country has the world's third-largest

proven oil reserves, it suffers from frequent gas shortages and often must

import fuel because its refining capacity is so low. "

 

" Targeting Iraq's oil infrastructure has become a favorite tactic for the

insurgents, in part because it foments discontent toward the U.S.

occupation. "

 

The insurgency has become such a force that even an elite Scottish Regiment

heading for Iraq was put on notice.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Warning as Royal Scots head for Iraq " , The Scotsman, January 6,

2006

 

" SCOTTISH soldiers in Iraq face a more dangerous situation now than two

years ago, a senior officer said yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel George

Lowder, the commanding officer of the Royal Scots, warned that insurgents

were better armed and more capable of mounting attacks against his solders

than they were when the regiment was last in Iraq, in the spring of 2004 ...

'The bad guys have got the capability and the determination to mount

effective attacks and they have been doing it now for longer and, in some

ways, they are getting a bit better at it'. "

 

IV. Not coincidentally, President Bush is seeking ways to get out of Iraq

without losing his political head. What the President was evidently seeking

was a bi-partisan shield, behind which he could stage a withdrawal from

Iraq.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Former U.S. Secretaries, Bush to Discuss Iraq " , CBS News, Jan.

5, 2006

 

" President Bush is pressing ahead with a public relations offensive on Iraq,

bringing a bipartisan group of former secretaries of defense and state to

the White House for give-and-take on the unpopular military mission. Gen.

George Casey, the top American commander in Iraq, and Zalmay Khalilzad, the

U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, were joining the president Thursday to give a

detailed briefing on Iraq to more than a dozen foreign policy leaders from

previous administrations. The hope was that the prominent figures would be

persuaded by the Bush administration's argument that it has " a clear plan in

place for victory in Iraq " and spread the word ... the White House has been

criticized for taking in too few outside opinions, so the session wasn't

designed for administration officials to do all the talking. "

 

" Among those on the White House's confirmed list of attendees for Thursday

were several former Clinton administration officials: Secretary of State

Madeleine Albright and Defense Secretaries William Cohen and William Perry.

Perry helped develop Sen. John Kerry's foreign policy positions during the

Massachusetts Democrat's campaign against Bush last year. The others from

previous Democratic administrations were Harold Brown, defense secretary

under former President Carter, and Robert McNamara, the Vietnam-era Pentagon

chief under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. "

 

" Those from Republican administrations were Colin Powell, Rice's predecessor

under Bush; former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III, Lawrence

Eagleburger, Alexander Haig and George Shultz; and former Defense

Secretaries Frank Carlucci, James Schlesinger and Melvin Laird. "

 

That is quite the list of former dignitaries, Globalist Insiders all.

 

The Public Relations campaign will probably spin on a " recommendation " by

these former " distinguished " group of former Secretaries of State and

Defense. When President Bush adopts their recommendations, he will be off

the hook for whatever action is already planned. The undiscerning citizen

will never understand that all these men are as fully supportive of the Plan

as is President Bush; but, these former secretaries will provide the

President the rationale and the moral high ground, a shield for withdrawing

from Iraq.

 

And, make no mistake about the fact that the withdrawal is probably

inevitable at this point, as this next story reveals quite well.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " White House to let Iraq reconstruction program lapse " , Taipei

Times, Jan 04, 2006

 

" The Bush administration has scaled back its ambitions to rebuild Iraq from

the devastation wrought by war and dictatorship and does not intend to seek

new funds for reconstruction, it emerged Monday. In a decision that will be

seen as a retreat from a promise by US President George Bush to give Iraq

the best infrastructure in the region, administration officials say they

will not seek reconstruction funds when the budget request is presented to

Congress next month ... The move will be seen by critics as further evidence

of the administration's failure to plan for the aftermath of the war. A

decision not to renew the reconstruction program would leave Iraq with the

burden of tens of billions of dollars in unfinished projects, and an oil

industry and electrical grid that have yet to return to pre-war production

levels. "

 

Rush Limbaugh loves to say that the purpose of a nation's military is to

smash people and break things. Certainly, Coalition Forces have done a

wonderful job smashing people and breaking things. Cutting Edge has led the

way reporting the many ways in which these two horrific objectives have been

carried out. However, President Bush did promise both the American and Iraqi

people that he would spare neither effort nor expense in rebuilding what we

his forces had smashed. Several P.R. campaigns have been launched since

Fall, 2003, to persuade everyone that the United States was aggressively

starting to rebuild Iraq. International donations were professionally

solicited.

 

Yet, it has seemed that the insurgency has been able to unravel most

everything the United States has attempted to rebuild. This next segment of

the current article speaks to this issue.

 

" The decision is a tacit admission of the failure of the US rebuilding

effort in the face of a relentless insurgency ... The cut-off to

reconstruction programs adds to increasing speculation that the

administration is planning at least a partial withdrawal of troops from Iraq

before November's US mid-term election. "

 

Has this news article -- written originally in the Washington Post -- just

given us both a rationale and a timetable for American withdrawal? Is

President Bush planning to withdraw in time to take credit for " peace and

safety " in the region for the mid-term elections in November? That is

certainly an interesting possibility, don't you think?

 

However, President Bush may face greater obstacles in the mid-term elections

than he anticipated.

 

V. When Washington super-star lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded " Guilty " to

charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and the illegal purchase of a gambling

boat fleet, he may have set off a chain-reaction in the Capitol which could

take down the Republican Party, powerful members of Congress, and possibly

even threaten the President.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Abramoff pleads guilty to fraud in Florida " , The Boston Globe,

January 5, 2006

 

" MIAMI --With two sets of guilty pleas in as many days, once-powerful

Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff now must cooperate with federal

prosecutors in a broad Congressional corruption probe if he wants a lighter

prison sentence. Abramoff, 46, completed the second half of his plea deal

Wednesday, admitting conspiracy and wire fraud connected to his purchase of

a gambling boat fleet. 'Guilty, your honor', Abramoff, 46, somberly told

U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck ... The plea came a day after Abramoff

entered guilty pleas to three other federal charges as part of an agreement

with prosecutors requiring him to cooperate in a wide-ranging corruption

probe that could involve up to 20 members of Congress and aides, including

former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. President Bush joined

several lawmakers, including DeLay and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, in

announcing plans to donate Abramoff's campaign contributions to charity.

Bush's re-election campaign is giving up $6,000 in campaign contributions

connected to Abramoff. "

 

" Like a former business partner did last month, Abramoff pleaded guilty to

concocting a false $23 million wire transfer that made it appear as if the

pair contributed a sizable stake of their own cash into the $147.5 million

purchase of SunCruz Casinos ... Abramoff 'will face the consequences of his

actions', said U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta after the plea hearing.

'Frauds like that committed here are not victimless. They affect real people

and impact the integrity of our financial institutions'. Although both

defendants in the SunCruz fraud have pleaded guilty, Acosta said the

investigation remains open. He said there are links between the SunCruz

purchase and some of the congressional corruption allegations, but would not

elaborate. "

 

As if to demonstrate that this type of fraud is not victimless, this article

turns to the subject of assassination.

 

" The Miami businessman who had sold SunCruz to Abramoff and Kidan,

Konstantinos 'Gus' Boulis, was later murdered in a mob-style hit. "

 

Seasoned insiders were not too surprised by this turn of events. Both the

G.O.P. and the White House were using Abramoff for a very specific reason --

the " K Street " lobbying project, -- designed to build greater Republican

majorities and to maintain that political power.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " GOP Tries to Outrun Scandal " , L.A. Times, By Mary Curtius,

Janet Hook and John-Thor Dahlburg, Times Staff Writers, January 5, 2005

 

" WASHINGTON -- From the White House to Capitol Hill, prominent Republicans

scrambled Wednesday to shed campaign contributions linked to disgraced

lobbyist Jack Abramoff, as his guilty pleas in fraud and corruption cases

opened a painful debate within the party over its leadership and direction

.... The spreading Abramoff scandal is considered so politically toxic that

some Republicans urged the party Wednesday to make broad changes if it hoped

to preserve its control of Congress in November's elections ... Anxieties on

Capitol Hill are mounting because Abramoff - once a key player in the

vaunted " K Street " lobbying project that DeLay built into a powerful tool to

help maintain Republican majorities in the House and Senate - is cooperating

with federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation.The

probe is focused on whether at least a half-dozen members of Congress and

several aides traded legislative action in return for lavish trips, gifts

and campaign contributions orchestrated by Abramoff. Although some Democrats

received Abramoff-linked contributions and favors, the lobbyist - a

Republican activist since college - spent most of his time and money helping

the GOP. "

 

What kind of money are we talking about here? You might be surprised.

 

" Records have shown that Abramoff helped funnel at least $100,000 to Bush's

reelection campaign ... "

 

How " toxic " is this situation to the Republican Party?

 

" Among those calling for change within the Republican Party was Vin Weber, a

GOP lobbyist and former House member from Minnesota with close ties to the

Bush administration. 'If they don't take fairly dramatic action and reclaim

the mantle of reform, [Republicans] are going to lose the House', Weber said

.... Republicans have sought to portray the Abramoff scandal as one that

potentially touches members of both parties, pointing out that Democrats

took campaign money from the lobbyists and those connected to him. "

 

If Abramoff was spearheading a specific Republican plan called the " K

Street " lobbying project designed to perpetuate Republican control over

Congress, the fact that some Democrats took some money from Abramoff may

just will not matter. The fact that the Democrats are attempting to spin

this story in just this manner is demonstrated by the next news article.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " 'Culture of Corruption' in GOP? Democrats Hope Voters Think

So " , by Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer, L.A. Times, January 5, 2005

 

" WASHINGTON - The downfall of prominent Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff

dropped like a bomb into the early stages of the 2006 congressional

campaign. But the scandal's political impact will depend on how far the

radius of the blast extends. Abramoff's guilty pleas to several felonies

Tuesday and Wednesday will probably compound the electoral headaches for

those senators and House members most directly linked to him. Republicans

with close ties to the lobbyist - including Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio and Tom

DeLay of Texas and Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana - have come under fire from

Democratic opponents. "

 

" But many analysts in both parties think that the Abramoff investigation

will significantly change the 2006 political landscape only if it helps

Democrats portray the GOP congressional majority as enmeshed in a 'culture

of corruption' ... But framing that picture won't be easy for Democrats,

partly because members of the party also received contributions from

Abramoff clients and partly because polls show most Americans see both

parties as equally prone to corruption ... The GOP does face the risk that

if the Abramoff case results in indictments of Republican lawmakers, voters

could see the scandal in more partisan terms ... Democrats counter that it

will be difficult for the GOP to present Abramoff as an " equal money

dispenser " between the parties, as President Bush put it in an interview

last month. "

 

" Mellman, the Democratic pollster, argued that as the majority party,

Republicans had the most to lose if the controversy deepened the

pox-on-both-houses attitude toward Congress evident in many polls. 'Even if

there are some Democrats caught up in it, the reality is if people are

negative about the whole institution, [Republicans] get hurt

disproportionately because there are more of them', he said. "

 

However this scandal mess plays out, at least you know one thing you did not

know before: White House and Congressional Republicans had instituted a plan

called the " K Street " lobbying project designed to perpetuate Republican

control over Congress that involved the flow of tremendous sums of money --

your tax money ultimately.

 

 

 

VI. War rhetoric against Iran continued to build this past week. Even

though we detailed this subject in the past newsletter, the rhetoric reached

such a fever pitch we need to discuss it again this week.

 

NEWS BRIEF: " U.S. preparing NATO for possible strike on Iran " , Ha'aretz

News, 1//01/2006

 

" German media sources have recently reported that the Bush Administration is

preparing its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for a potential

attack on nuclear sites in Iran. The 'Der Spiegel' weekly emphasized that

'Washington is now sending high level officials to prepare allies for a

potential strike, as opposed to conducting talks that just hint at the

possibility, which is what has been happening until now' ... A German news

agency quoted western intelligence sources, according to which CIA chief

Porter Goss asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for logistical

aid in event of an American strike against Iranian nuclear sites and

military targets.

 

" According to the report, Goss, who visited Ankara on December 12, also

asked Turkish intelligence for assistance ahead of a possible attack. In

return, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government asked Turkey not to allow

Israel or the U.S. to use its territory or air space to facilitate an

attack, Iranian media recently reported. "

 

We have reported on many occasions that we believe this attack rhetoric has

to be taken with a huge grain of salt, for a number of reasons:

 

1) The Bush Administration has been threatening Iran in just this manner

since Summer, 2003 -- but has backed down each time.

 

2) Russian President Putin warned on April 12, 2003, that Russia, France,

and Germany would not permit any more " Regime Changes " in the Middle East

(NEWS1802)

 

3) Russia possesses advanced Scalar Technology and Quantum Potential weapons

which the United States does not have, and if Russia chose to do so, this

weaponry would doom any American attack on Iran (NEWS1776)

 

4) Iran has possessed nuclear weapons since early, 2002 (NEWS1660).

Therefore, this rhetoric that Iran is close to producing a nuclear device is

purely propaganda lying. Whenever you see such obvious lying occurring, you

can bet the Illuminati is on the path to achieving a " Rumors of Wars "

scenario, falling short of actual war. Since Summer, 2003, that has been

exactly the case.

 

5) Since Israel -- not the United States -- possesses Scalar and Quantum

Potential weapons, she is the only one capable of breeching Russian defenses

over Iran to carry out an attack. You may be told that American planes and

American missiles flew to their targets, you can bet your bottom dollar that

Israel launched the attack using scalar weaponry. Such weaponry produces the

kinds of explosions that can be passed off as conventional and/or nuclear,

but the fact is that only a nation equipped with advanced scalar technology

can possibly attack Iran successfully -- and that means Israel, not the

United States.

 

Since this is the reality, you can now understand why the new Iranian

hardline president has continually called both Israel and America very bad

names in public, almost as if he was daring them to do anything about it.

This Iranian president is no dummy, for he knows he has Russian protection.

 

6) While Iran may be attacked, her government is likely not to fall out of

extremist hands. Iran (Persia) is prophesied to march one day with the

Russians in an End of the Age invasion of Israel (Ezekiel 38 - 39). This

prophetic reality means that Iran must be led by exactly the kind of

Anti-West, Anti-Israel government she currently possesses,.

 

If we learned that an attack was planned on a specific time, would that make

the threat even more credible?

 

NEWS BRIEF: " A 2006 U.S. plan to attack Iran detailed " , Al-Jazeera.com,

12/31/2005

 

" At the early stages of Bush's second term, Vice President DICK CHENEY

dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was 'right at the top of the list' of

the rogue enemies of the United States, and that Israel would, so to speak,

'be doing the bombing for us " , without U.S. military having to ask them 'to

do it' ... during a visit to Istanbul, U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency Porter Goss asked Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to support

the air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2006 and that by

stepping up the exchange of intelligence. Over the past few weeks, DDP says,

Washington contacted the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman and

Pakistan seeking the same kind of cooperation. "

 

" Earlier this year, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker wrote that American

commandos were on reconnaissance missions inside Iran, selecting military

targets ... But many diplomats suggest that Erdogan and the Turkish military

are worried about the situation in the entire region should the U.S. or

Israel strike Iran. And some experts have warned that any strike against

Iran's nuclear facilities would be very unsuccessful. "

 

Other news stories have indicated that an attack on Iran's nuclear

facilities is planned for March -- using nuclear weapons against Iran, no

less!

 

NEWS BRIEF: " Nuclear War against Iran " , by Michel Chossudovsky, Global

Research, January 3, 2006

 

" The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now

in the final planning stages. Coalition partners, which include the US,

Israel and Turkey are in " an advanced stage of readiness'. Various military

exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian

Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the

Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack ... Tehran

has confirmed that it will retaliate if attacked, in the form of ballistic

missile strikes directed against Israel (CNN, 8 Feb 2005). These attacks,

could also target US military facilities in Iraq and Persian Gulf, which

would immediately lead us into a scenario of military escalation and all out

war. At present there are three distinct war theaters: Afghanistan, Iraq and

Palestine. The air strikes against Iran could contribute to unleashing a war

in the broader Middle East Central Asian region.

 

" Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given the green light to the Israeli Armed

Forces to launch the attacks by the end of March. "

 

Just knowing a possible time frame for an attack of this magnitude will

cause many people to feel a strong emotion of gnawing fear. And, that is

perfectly understandable, too.

 

However, we have seen this situation also -- and in the not-too-distant

past. Do you remember the many stories of an American attack on Iran in

October, 2004, just weeks before the 2004 Presidential election? Analysts

were calling this supposed attack the " October Surprise " . According to many

news articles, airplanes were to begin flying, missiles were supposed to

begin zooming and war was said to begin at any moment.

 

Rather predictably, the Bush Administration backed down again, and there was

no " October Surprise " designed to help Bush win reelection. All during

September - October, 2004, we made the same points we made above, as to why

we dis-believed the many urgent news reports.

 

We see only one possibility that there would ever be an attack on Iran's

nuclear facilities: if the Illuminati is prepared to ignite all-out regional

war!

 

That kind of Middle East war is planned, but only when the time has come to

ignite the global war which will produce Antichrist. The Global Planners

have dubbed this war " World War III " , a war which has been planned since

1870 (NEWS1056). Iran will certainly retaliate with all weapons at her

disposal, and that includes nuclear weapons. Iran has certainly planned to

attack Israel as part of her plan to defeat the American invasion of Iraq

(NEWS1910).

 

An attack on Iran will only occur if the Illuminati is ready for the World

War III to begin.